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With Aline, the mischief began on shipboard or perhaps a little before, though I realized then for the first time what was happening. I have great faith in Aline's charm. I've seen several clever and important men go down before it; but somehow I felt doubtful about Somerled. If Aline has a lack I may admit it here it is temperament. Possibly I have a touch of what she misses.
Her hair was of that sun-in-a-mist gold that eventually fades almost imperceptibly into gray if left to itself. But in Aline's case it was improbable that it would be left to itself. Every morning when dressing she examined it anxiously, even fearfully, to see whether it was becoming thinner or losing its misty glints of gold.
And when she's out of sight, out of mind with Ian Somerled, he'll realize that she wasn't the right one. He'll come back to me, and see that I was always meant for him." "A woman's instinct is often right. Also many a heart is caught in the rebound," said I, falling back on proverbs. And in this way, with the talc that entered Aline's eyes, malice entered our hearts.
In a very degage manner she informed me that his lordship, a most attractive and honourable young Englishman, had been one of Aline's warmest friends at the time of the divorce proceedings. But, of course, there was nothing in that! They had been good friends for years, nothing more, and he was a perfect dear. But she couldn't fool me.
His family consisted of his commonplace wife, his sister-in-law, whose fortune he had appropriated by selling her estate and putting the money to his account, and his meek, frightened, plain daughter, who lived a lonely, weary life, from which she had lately begun to look for relaxation in evangelicism, attending meetings at Aline's, and the Countess Katerina Ivanovna.
Suddenly, however, Aline's own words damped the prospect as with a douche of cold water. She was perfectly right, too. It would be a very good plan to place the waif he had picked up as soon as possible in the care of a mother, even such an extraordinary, incredible mother as Mrs.
Why should Goring interfere with Aline's endeavors to develop herself, to be something more than a mother and a nurse? "She has kept something of her own soul, that is it!" "Her own soul!" mocked Isabelle. "If you were to take a meal with them, you would wish there was less soul, and more clean table napkins."
"And if ye please, Patsy Ferris, wha may it be that is in danger at the Bothy o' Blairmore?" "Why, Stair Garland, of course!" "And wha else?" "I suppose my Uncle Julian is," said Patsy, seeing Miss Aline's point, "but he is not in real danger like Stair." "Not perhaps if it comes to a trial, but suppose that the sodjers have orders not to let it come to a trial !"
"But, George, my dear boy, do you never read the etiquette books and the hints in the Sunday papers on how to be the perfect gentleman? Don't you know you can't be a man's guest and take advantage of his hospitality to try to steal his fiancee away from him?" "Watch me." A dreamy look came into Aline's eyes. "I wonder what it feels like, being a countess," she said. "You will never know."
We were discussing Aline's unfortunate venture into the state of matrimony and I, feeling temporarily august and superior, managed to say the wrong thing and in doing so put myself in a position from which I could not recede without loss of dignity. If my memory serves me correctly I remarked, with some asperity, that marriages of that kind never turned out well for any one except the bridegroom.
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